Kernel for Tape is used to recover and retrieve data from all types of damaged, corrupted tape cartridges such as DLT, AIT, LTO, DAT tapes and formats. During recovery process a complete scan of the damaged tape is performed to locate and restore the found data. After the complete scanning the data found in the damaged tape is stored in a image file and the found files and folders are displayed in a tree like structure for recovery.

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